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@ 2012-08-27 5:00 PM (#8420 - in reply to #8245) (#8420) Top

Ours brun




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Ours brun posted @ 2012-08-27 5:00 PM

Oops, didn't notice the answer. I just sent it via PM.
@ 2012-08-27 5:51 PM (#8422 - in reply to #8245) (#8422) Top

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Akuma21 posted @ 2012-08-27 5:51 PM

Thanks! now i understand.... not all dots were given....
@ 2012-08-27 6:24 PM (#8423 - in reply to #8245) (#8423) Top

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Ours brun posted @ 2012-08-27 6:24 PM

All dots were given, but they only applied to vertically adjacent consecutive digits.

Always read very carefully the instructions!
@ 2012-08-27 9:29 PM (#8428 - in reply to #8245) (#8428) Top

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Akuma21 posted @ 2012-08-27 9:29 PM

Damn!! You are right! Thanks for the precisation!
@ 2012-08-28 1:15 AM (#8436 - in reply to #8245) (#8436) Top

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euklid posted @ 2012-08-28 1:15 AM

I think I am alone with the problem that I had:
I have completely overlooked the "non-consecutive" constraint at the little odd fish killer! :-)
Without this constraint the puzzle was pretty unsolvable (of course :-) although I had counted the diagonals and knew the corner numbers pretty fast...

Could have finished this test but I am happy with my result anyways.
@ 2012-08-28 1:33 AM (#8437 - in reply to #8245) (#8437) Top

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Ours brun posted @ 2012-08-28 1:33 AM

Do not feel alone, I faced the same problem for a few minutes before I got it!
@ 2012-08-28 4:03 AM (#8438 - in reply to #8423) (#8438) Top

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Fred76 posted @ 2012-08-28 4:03 AM

Ours brun - 2012-08-27 6:24 PM

Always read very carefully the instructions!
@ 2012-08-28 5:41 AM (#8440 - in reply to #8245) (#8440) Top

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Ours brun posted @ 2012-08-28 5:41 AM

In my case I could just have read the title... but I guess it wasn't written big enough.
@ 2012-08-28 9:41 AM (#8441 - in reply to #8245) (#8441) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2012-08-28 9:41 AM

Reminder to Participants


This is a reminder that Killer Shootout has not ended, and you may still participate over the next 20 hours.


@ 2012-08-29 6:46 AM (#8446 - in reply to #8441) (#8446) Top

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Administrator posted @ 2012-08-29 6:46 AM

Killer Shootout is now over. Congratulations to Nikola, Sylvain and Hideaki for taking the top 3 spots. Sylvain took 2.5 minutes to check his answers which probably cost what-could-have-been his first LMI title.

22 players finished all 7 puzzles in the allocated 3 hours. Many others submitted 6 puzzles (there are 20 scores of 144, being separated by submission times)

Thanks Stefan for the Sudoku set, and we hope to hear from you about your experience as well.

ETA : Password removed from test pdf file.
@ 2012-08-29 3:30 PM (#8448 - in reply to #8405) (#8448) Top

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Richard posted @ 2012-08-29 3:30 PM

Richard - 2012-08-27 2:28 AM

So I did. I found a few older LK's, started practising and found a few tricks and thought of a few other possible tricks. I wrote them down and that was quite a good idea. Pretty helpful for some grids in the test.

Some of the possible techniques for the Little Irregular Killer that I had written down were not necessary to use in the test.
Since it is possible to have a nice co-operation between chaos areas and diagonals I have made two puzzles for the puzzle portal Germany in which those techniques have to be applied. The easier version solves much faster if you apply the technique, the harder one is very tough if you don’t apply the technique.
Have fun!
@ 2012-08-29 5:00 PM (#8449 - in reply to #8245) (#8449) Top

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RASHI posted @ 2012-08-29 5:00 PM

any1 can tell the solution of all puzzles?
@ 2012-08-29 5:25 PM (#8450 - in reply to #8245) (#8450) Top

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Stefan_Heine posted @ 2012-08-29 5:25 PM

Thank you all very much for participating at my first LMI Test! It was very exciting to watch what you do. I hope you all liked the puzzles and if there is anything in general, that I could have done better - please tell me so that I can learn from this.

Congratulations to Nikola, Sylvain and Hideaki - you were sooo fast - incredible!

I hope to see many of you in Croatia.

Thank you!
Stefan
@ 2012-08-29 6:00 PM (#8451 - in reply to #8448) (#8451) Top

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Ours brun posted @ 2012-08-29 6:00 PM

Richard - 2012-08-29 11:30 AM

Some of the possible techniques for the Little Irregular Killer that I had written down were not necessary to use in the test.
Since it is possible to have a nice co-operation between chaos areas and diagonals I have made two puzzles for the puzzle portal Germany in which those techniques have to be applied. The easier version solves much faster if you apply the technique, the harder one is very tough if you don’t apply the technique.
Have fun!

I can only advise you to have a look at them; both are very nice, the harder one being truly excellent (and quite tough even with the right technique).
@ 2012-08-31 12:08 AM (#8466 - in reply to #8448) (#8466) Top

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prasanna16391 posted @ 2012-08-31 12:08 AM

Richard - 2012-08-29 3:30 PM

Richard - 2012-08-27 2:28 AM

So I did. I found a few older LK's, started practising and found a few tricks and thought of a few other possible tricks. I wrote them down and that was quite a good idea. Pretty helpful for some grids in the test.

Some of the possible techniques for the Little Irregular Killer that I had written down were not necessary to use in the test.
Since it is possible to have a nice co-operation between chaos areas and diagonals I have made two puzzles for the puzzle portal Germany in which those techniques have to be applied. The easier version solves much faster if you apply the technique, the harder one is very tough if you don’t apply the technique.
Have fun!


Solved both. Were great fun. Nice usage of the technique. Thanks Richard :)
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